Mar 22, 2015 | Communalism, Custodial Death, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel...
Feb 18, 2015 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Since June-July 2014, reports have been filtering in regarding the intensification of Operation Green Hunt in the forest villages of Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Civil rights organizations have been receiving requests to send teams in order to investigate what...
Feb 18, 2015 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Between December 26th and 31st 2014, a PUDR fact-finding team visited 9 villages of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh to ascertain reports of arrests, intimidation and harassment, including sexual abuse by security forces who are stationed there to fight the Maoists....
Feb 12, 2015 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The recent chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) absolving former Hizbul Mujahideen militant, Syed Liaquat Shah, of all charges, has yet again exposed the Special Cell of the Delhi Police for planting false evidence and for framing Shah. Shah...
Jan 31, 2015 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
In a bizarre move, the Tamil Nadu police arrested S. Kovan, a well-known folk singer on charges of sedition (S. 124-A), for promoting enmity between communities (S. 153-A) and criminal intimidation (S. 505/1) of the IPC. According to news reports, Kovan was picked up...
Jan 30, 2015 | Caste, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स 1999 के शंकरबीघा जनसंहार (जहानाबाद ज़िला) के सभी दोषियों को बरी करने की तीव्र निंदा करता है | 14 जनवरी, 2015 को बिहार के जहानाबाद ज़िले के एक ट्रायल कोर्ट द्वारा शंकरबीघा जनसंहार में शामिल रणवीर सेना के सभी दोषियों को ‘साक्ष्य...
